Sunday, December 6, 2009

Prescribed Length


Here on a wall at La Pescheria and, as much as I know, also displayed in at least two other locations in Venice (Fondamenta della Tana and Campo Santa Margherita), this marble slab was designed to inform fishmongers and their customers about the prescribed minimal length in centimeters of the fish sold on the markets and in the whole Venice lagoon. A vital way to protect the fishing patrimony, back in time so important to the the inhabitant's living.

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